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Book Review: This book is an illustrated history focussing on images of Sir John Franklin artifacts, maps, written documents, paintings, and wood engravings.

Book Review: Michael Palin’s book Erebus treats the larger history of HMS Erebus throughout its long history with the British navy.

Canadians played key role in creation of UN human rights declaration.

A look back at select moments from British Columbia’s history.

In this lesson, students will analyze artifacts to learn about the experiences of Black sleeping car porters on the job. 

On the home front in World War II, Canadians lived a contradiction. They were told to save. And asked to spend.

In the Great War, the Canadian state found itself fighting two fronts. And the historical irony is striking: while thousands of working-class men and women were marched off to Europe, ostensibly to defend the rights and freedoms of democracy against tyranny, such highly prized ideals were routinely—and often severely—violated at home.

Who owned the guns, the books, the camera, and the rotted tent, found in the wilderness 120 kilometres from Churchill? And why did he never return for them?

As we mark the magazine’s centennial, we reflect on the past, but we also want to share our aspirations for the future of Canada’s History.

A Christmas dinner in Montreal, 1665